Kernphysikalisches Kolloquium
Location: ITP, Science Campus Riedberg, Max-von-Laue-Str. 1, room 02.116
Time: Thursday, July 12, 2012, 4:30-5:30pm (plus 10min for discussion)
Contact: hees@fias.uni-frankfurt.de
The charming side of ALICE
Kai Schweda (GSI Darmstadt)
The Large Hadron Collider at CERN provides nucleus-nucleus collisions at highest energies. In these collisions, the creation of a quark gluon plasma (QGP) is expected: a state of de-confined and thermalized quarks and gluons. Heavy quarks (charm and beauty) are unique probes of such a QGP and they are copiously produced at LHC energies. We report on recent results on heavy quark production in ALICE.